updated for TnA article today, Olbison, would like to stay as spent 6 years here, "playing it by ear for now"

Olbison reminds me of Worrincy. Runs outstanding attacking lines. But is lacking in a lot of other areas. His defence his very poor for a second rower (he missed 9 tackles on Sunday!!) has no off-load game and rarely breaks a tackle and can give soft penalties away.

Does make me laugh declaring he would like to stay. Realistically, would any SL club want him? I think he will do well in the championship.

We'll apparently Leeds are sniffing round olbison and Roberts. Maybe they see something your missing.

Scruton has signed a 2 year extension at Wakey. Good bit of business for them, I think a lot of people assumed he would be off at the end of the season.
Also rules out any possibility of us re-signing him, obviously.

With us certs for the drop there was no chance of getting Scruton.

Olbison is a championship level player. He's a good lad and a really conscientious trainer. Roberts has his whole career in front of him and has barely played 1st team yet. Neither are SL class though Roberts has it in him. If Leeds want Olbison then let them have him.

It was one bad day at the office tackle wise for him. his tackles made to missed ratio for the season is 10%. Last season it was about 15% so a big improvement from him in a worse team. But on the attacking side, he is second tryscorer, second for clean breaks, 7th for tackle busts. Agree about few offloads, but the other side of that is a low number of errors. No team has 17 complete players. I can see plenty of reasons to keep him for SL2.

The reason is that they had to assemble a squad at the very last minute, a mistake they aren't making again judging from their activity. Given the fact that the only luck we get these days is bad luck, you can forgive me for fretting that we could sleep walk into making the same mistake ourselves.

The only slight reassurance I have over our 2015 recruitment (and it is only slight) is that Marc openly acknowledges the issue in the program notes.
We've not heard a peep out of Steve Ferres recently, hopefully he's been hard at work and the club are just waiting for the right time to unleash good news (normally around the same time as some bad!).

Updated for Adam Henry TnA article today. Cue debate. interesting point in TnA article, that he was to be a squad player to be developed rather than first choice, but has played more due to injuries etc etc. Again like Olbison attacking stats far superior to defence, if he can improve next year as much as Olbison did this year then he should be therebouts in the missed tackle ratio for a wide player.
What I would like to see is Donaldson or equivalents ie defensive back rower/centres showing some commitment, otherwise its going to 50 - 45 type scores next season hopefully in our favour.

I think Henry would be excellent in the championship. I think he would rip some championship clubs to pieces with his size. Defensively he is very poor but hopefully that's something he can work on.

On Donno, I would be surprised if he stayed. Can see a fair few SL clubs wanting to sign him.

Here you go. Excuse any mistypes/ spelling errors as had to type it in rather than scanning. If any of mods feel it breaches AUP doing this then please remove post. Can't see it being an issue with programme notes but you never know.

thanks Mat, especially for typing it in! as you say most of the meat (such as it is) is in the bit that was on the website, interesting that he puts the youth of tomorrow first before the team of today and that so far does seem to be the balance, so its wait for the announcements in a few weeks. Also shows his resolve that the business is profitable.

My main worry at the moment is that a lot of players are saying "Yes, I'd like to stay at Bradford even if we went down" but there doesn't seem to have been much movement on the re-signing front.

Given other clubs, including London, have been announcing signings already, I'm concerned that we're going to get left behind as it's not going to be like previous seasons when a SL club has dropped down and been able to kick back and steam roll the Championship clubs and come back up easily. There's a lot of sharks in those waters now and the Bulls look to be bleeding heavily

I'm strangely reassured by the absence of a fans forums, 'in the know fans', and club insiders using the forum to spread wilful rubbish.

Lowes and Robbie are good blokes who wouldn't be involved if they didn't think Green was doing right by the club. Other than that, we'll all just have to wait and see what happens.

On Donno, I can't see a SL club wanting him as his go forward is poor. Having said that, just about all the forwards went backwards under Cummins. One mistake Green has made is not sacking FC sooner.

And as if right on cue, Steve Ferres breaks his silence for a reassuring article.
Is someone from the club reading these forums? Or is it just Ross from the t&a?
The timing is uncanny.

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